The regulation tool you didn't know you needed.

Custom sensory walls and calm-down spaces that help children move, regulate and find calm, turning an everyday room into a pathway they can follow. Designed and installed Australia-wide.

Sensory storyboards for calmer spaces.  Made in Australia

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The guide to sensory signage that actually works

How we design spaces that support regulation, not just direction. The thinking behind our Campbellfield Heights installation, written for the people who plan and budget these spaces.

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What We Do

We design custom sensory spaces for schools, clinics and public spaces, each built around how a child actually experiences the room.

A sensory storyboard is a wall designed to help a child move, regulate and find calm, not just decorate a room. 

Every Sensory Signs space follows a simple, structured journey: regulate, activate, then calm. A child arrives overwhelmed, moves through the space, and comes out the other side settled and ready to learn. 
Designed and installed by hand, here in Australia.

HOW A SENSORY STORYBOARD WORKS - Our 3 Step Sensory Experience

One journey, three stages, from a busy body to ready to learn.

The child arrives and settles. 

Regulate: Gentle counting and tracking prompts, like counting the butterflies or following the handprints, bring a busy, overwhelmed body back to baseline.

Activate: The child burns energy with purpose. Animal movements, leap like a frog, jump like a kangaroo, give big feelings a physical outlet, so calm becomes reachable.

Calm: The child settles to finish. Breathing and stretching prompts, inhale, hold, exhale, land them back in a ready state, ready to return to the classroom.

These ideas are informed by widely used emotional regulation frameworks.
Sensory Signs regulate-stage wall of a sensory storyboard at Campbellfield Heights Primary School, with a river, butterflies and a Follow the Handprints prompt. Counting and tracking activities help a busy, overwhelmed child settle and self-regulate
Sensory Signs regulate-stage wall of a sensory storyboard at Campbellfield Heights Primary School, with a river, butterflies and a Follow the Handprints prompt. Counting and tracking activities help a busy, overwhelmed child settle and self-regulate

STEP 1

Regulate

Arrive and settle.
Gentle counting and tracking prompts to bring a busy body back to calm.

Count the butterflies
Follow the handprints
Count the platypus
Count the fish in the waterfall

Sensory Signs activate-stage wall of a sensory storyboard at Campbellfield Heights Primary School, a jungle scene with animals and a Step 2 Activate sign. Movement prompts give a child a purposeful way to burn energy before they calm, part of a schoo
Sensory Signs activate-stage wall of a sensory storyboard at Campbellfield Heights Primary School, a jungle scene with animals and a Step 2 Activate sign. Movement prompts give a child a purposeful way to burn energy before they calm, part of a schoo

STEP 2

Activate

Burn the energy!
Animal movements give busy bodies the energetic green light the body has been asking for.

Follow the Possum Path
Leap like a frog
Jump like a kangaroo
Walk like an emu

Sunset detail from a Sensory Signs calm-down wall, with a Shine Bright Like the Sun breathing prompt. Part of a custom sensory storyboard that helps children regulate and find calm in schools, clinics and sensory spaces.
Sunset detail from a Sensory Signs calm-down wall, with a Shine Bright Like the Sun breathing prompt. Part of a custom sensory storyboard that helps children regulate and find calm in schools, clinics and sensory spaces.

Step 3

Calming

Settle to finish.
Breathing clouds and stretching cues land a child back in a ready state.

Inhale · hold · exhale
Spread your wings like a Cockatoo
Stretch like a Snake
Breathe with the Koalas
"I am ready to learn"

Where a storyboard belongs

Not just for classrooms. Anywhere a child needs to feel calmer.

Custom designed and made for your space, your colours and your brief. From a primary multipurpose room to a hospital corridor or an airport family zone, we design the storyboard your kids actually want to interact and immerse in.

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Schools

Sensory rooms, breakout spaces and calm-down corners that help students regulate and get ready to learn.

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Clinics & hospitals

Paediatric waiting areas and OT rooms that calm a child before an appointment even starts.

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Airports

Family and sensory zones that turn an overwhelming environment into a path a child can follow.

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Shopping centres

Quiet rooms and parents' rooms designed for overstimulated little ones.

Our promise

Designed by humans. Built for how a child feels.

We handle everything in house, from first concept through fabrication to installation, so you work with one team from start to finish. Every wall is designed by hand, not generated, because the details matter: how busy a scene is, where the eye lands, how much space sits between prompts. Those are human judgements about sensory load. Backed by over 20 years of signage experience and the team at CB Visuals, so a brand-new idea is delivered with an established company’s craft. Based in Melbourne, installing Australia-wide.

We design it, fabricate it and install it. One team, accountable from sketch to finished space.

100%
Human designed
to your brief
Designed, fabricated and installed by our own team

For wellbeing leaders, OTs & inclusion teams

Built to sit alongside the work you already do.

A sensory storyboard is an environmental support, not a clinical program. It's designed to complement your school's whole-school wellbeing approach and the regulation strategies your team and treating therapists already use, giving children a consistent, visual prompt to move and regulate across the day.

Self-regulation & co-regulation

A movement path through arousal levels

The journey moves a child from a heightened state, through active proprioceptive input, to a calm and ready state. It gives staff a shared, visual way to co-regulate with a child and prompt calming and alerting strategies in the moment.

Sensory processing

Designed with arousal in mind

We design to a considered, low-arousal palette and pacing, so the space supports regulation rather than adding to sensory load. Colours, density and prompts are all adjustable to your cohort's sensory profiles.

Inclusive practice

One environment, every learner

The storyboard is a universal support the whole class can use, while flexible enough to back individual adjustments for students with a Disability Inclusion Profile. No child is singled out to use it.

Whole-school & early intervention

A standing prompt, not a one-off lesson

Because it lives on the wall, the support is always available, reinforcing your regulation language every day. It backs a promotion and prevention approach rather than waiting for a child to reach crisis.

How it aligns with the frameworks you work within

We design the environment; you bring the pedagogy and clinical judgement. Here's where a storyboard fits.

Zones of Regulation®
Our regulate, active and calm path mirrors the move from heightened to ready states, giving you a physical space to reinforce the Zones language your students are already learning. (Zones of Regulation is a trademark of its creators; our storyboards complement it and are not affiliated with or endorsed by them.)
Australian Student Wellbeing Framework
Supports the Inclusion and Support elements by making a welcoming, regulation-friendly environment visible across shared school spaces.
Disability Inclusion (VIC)
Sits within "consistent visual supports throughout the school", a recognised use of Disability Inclusion funding, ideally specified alongside your OT's Sensory Profiles.
Mental Health & Wellbeing Leaders
A practical, whole-school tool a MHWL can point to for everyday regulation, prevention and early intervention, without needing to deliver a clinical intervention.

Sensory storyboards are an environmental wellbeing support, not a medical or therapeutic device, and don't replace individual assessment or advice from a registered occupational therapist or allied health professional. We're happy to design to your OT's recommendations and your school's existing wellbeing plan.

From idea to installed space

Four steps, one accountable team.

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Walkthrough

We visit your space, measure up and listen to how the room is used.

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Design to brief

Our team draws a custom sensory storyboard in your colours, with your prompts, at your sizes.

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Storyboard & proof

You see the full storyboard mockup across the whole space and approve it before anything is printed.

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Fabricate & install

We print to a durable, regulating finish and install it for you.

Questions we get asked

What schools and providers ask us first.

What is sensory signage?
Sensory signage is storyboard artwork designed with regulating kids in mind: calming colours, visual activities and storytelling adventures. Unlike a generic decal, our storyboard signs help neurodivergent children move, regulate and navigate a space on their own.
How is a sensory storyboard different from a normal wall decal?
A normal decal is decoration: alphabets, times tables, generic stickers. A sensory storyboard is a functional path. Each prompt is a movement or mindfulness cue, paced at intervals so a child can take a brain break and come back ready to learn.
Do sensory storyboards help autistic and neurodivergent children?
Around 1 in 6 children experience sensory processing differences. Research shows visual schedules, consistent landmarks and colour coding help neurodivergent children navigate spaces independently and regulate more easily. That is the essence of every storyboard we make.
Are the designs generated by AI?
No. Every storyboard is drawn by our own team to your brief: your room dimensions, your palette, and the exact prompts your staff or OT want in the space. Nothing is generated by AI or pulled from a stock library.
Where can sensory storyboards be installed?
Anywhere a child needs to feel calmer: primary school sensory rooms and corridors, paediatric clinics and hospital waiting areas, airport family and sensory zones, and shopping centre quiet rooms. Each storyboard is made to fit your space.
Do you design, print and install the storyboards yourselves?
Yes. As a specialist arm of CB Visuals we handle the whole process ourselves: from the first site visit, to custom design to your brief, to a full mockup for approval, then printing and installation. One team, accountable from sketch to finished space.
How does a storyboard fit with our wellbeing programs and OT advice?
A storyboard is an environmental wellbeing support, not a clinical program. It complements your school's whole-school approach and the regulation strategies your staff and treating occupational therapists already use. It never replaces individual assessment by a registered allied health professional.
What is a sensory storyboard?
A sensory storyboard is a wall or space designed to help a child move, regulate and find calm, using a clear visual sequence a child can follow. Unlike a decorative mural, every element has a job: prompts that help an overwhelmed child settle, burn energy and return to a calm, ready state.
How do you help an overwhelmed child calm down?
Telling a child to calm down rarely works, because an instruction needs a regulated brain to follow it. What helps is a prompt a child can act on in any state: short, physical and immediate. A sensory storyboard gives a child that sequence, moving them from overwhelmed to settled, step by step.
What is a calm down corner?
A calm down corner is a small, low-clutter space a child can go to when they feel overwhelmed. It works best when it feels safe, offers a simple sequence to follow, includes something for the body, and is a place to choose rather than a punishment. Sensory Signs designs calm down corners and larger sensory spaces for schools, clinics and public spaces.
Let's talk about your sensory project

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Let us know about your sensory project ideas and we'll arrange a time that suits you to discuss it.

Email the team Call 0421 845 673
Melbourne based, installing Australia wide · info@sensorysigns.com.au